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BACOLOD CITY - Some 1,396 police personnel will be deployed to secure the voting centers in all 31 component cities and municipalities in Negros Occidental during the May 9 national and local elections. Data of the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (NOCPPO) show two policemen will be deployed to each of the 698 voting centers on election day aside from other personnel on stand-by to provide monitoring and quick reaction assistance. Lt. Abegael Donasco, NOCPPO spokesperson, said on Tuesday they have sufficient manpower and have no need so far, for augmentation forces from the Police Re...

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National Bureau of Investigation agents will be blending with the crowd in campaign rallies to apprehend those caught in the act of vote buying, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said in yesterday’s Laging Handa virtual forum.

MANILA-Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Tuesday said his office will be backing the Commission on Elections (Comelec) "Kontra Bigay" Task Force against vote-buying. "I intend to create a Department of Justice (DOJ) composite team from the National Prosecution Service, National Bureau of Investigation, Public Attorney's Office, and DOJ Action Centers (main and field offices) for the Comelec's inter-agency task force against vote-buying," Guevarra said. "Considering the importance of the forthcoming elections to the survival and recovery of the nation, I wil...

THE Department of Justice (DOJ) is eyeing to form a composite team that would be part of the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) Inter-Agency Task Force “Kontra Bigay,” which will go after vote buyers. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra told reporters that the DOJ team would be tasked to focus and give…